Design Process:

Once our team agreed to focus our ecosystem on bringing a student's home life into their new life, we brainstormed different issues and ways to activate those home memories. 

We discussed the power of senses to recall memories. As a team, we decided to further explore our challenge by trying to recall memories of home through different senses. Our team decided to develop three different prototypes. One that reminds a student of their home through a visual cue. A second one that brings different sounds of their home country to their bedroom and a third object that dispenses different but familiar smells. All three connected devices are being triggered by the home country weather of the student.

Below are the initial sketches and concepts of each connected device.